Introduction: The 3 kinds of plants familiar to the roadside were once folk best wild vegetables, but unfortunately they were often removed as weeds
In the countryside, there is no shortage of plants.
Although the vast majority of plants are often treated as weeds by farmers, or because they do not know and ignore their value.
But there are some plants, even if they are very common in life, but their value is not low. For example, the 3 kinds of plants that I want to introduce to you today can be seen everywhere in the countryside, and sometimes on the side of the road.
But it is a pity that most people have seen them but do not know, or do not know their value, and thus remove them as weeds. You know, in the past, they were all the best wild vegetables, which once helped many people, and I hope that after reading today's article, they can attract attention.
The first is wild spinach.
Wild spinach is just a common name, it is not wild spinach, and the spinach grown in the vegetable garden is not domesticated by it. The scientific name of wild spinach is "sorrel", and in the folk it is also called soil rhubarb, blood panax, mountain spinach, mountain sour slip, goat's hoof, sour grass and so on.
This plant grows tall, the leaves are fat like a spoon, and it looks somewhat similar to the spinach grown in the vegetable garden, hence the name.
This plant can be found in some rural wastelands, roadsides, vegetable gardens and parks. Its leaves have a sour taste, so they generally do not even eat cattle and sheep. For this reason, some people think that plants that cattle and sheep do not eat must not be eaten, and even some people think that it is poisonous. If you also think that wild spinach is useless, you are very wrong.
Wild spinach was often eaten as a wild vegetable decades ago. Because of the shortage of food in the past, when the year is not good, they often eat the last meal without the next meal, in order to fill the stomach, they often dig up various wild vegetables to fill their hunger, and wild spinach is one of them.
Although wild spinach is not as delicious as spinach in the vegetable garden, it has a long history of being eaten as a wild vegetable. It is recorded in the Ming Dynasty's "Saving the Wilderness Materia Medica", a book dedicated to describing various edible wild vegetables. Among them, it is pointed out that wild spinach can be eaten as a wild vegetable, and it also has the medicinal value of quenching thirst, clearing heat and detoxification.
The second is the toad grass.
Don't be scared away by the name, it is actually a very common plant in the countryside, in the countryside in front of the house, in the yard, on the side of the road, in the crop field.
Toad grass is a very recognizable plant, basically see it once and you will not get it wrong. It is because the leaves of this plant have uneven granular shapes, which look like the back of a toad. For some people with dense phobia, it is estimated that they will be afraid when they see it.
However, although leper grass is common, its value is not low. The scientific name of this plant is toad grass, and in some places it is also called lychee grass, which may be that the surface of the leaves is uneven like a lychee!
And to say that its value, the first is to eat as a wild vegetable. In the spring and early summer, when the leaves of the toad grass are fresh, they can be picked and eaten as wild vegetables. It can be used to fry eggs to eat, but also can be used for cold mixing, stir-frying and so on.
Although it is not remarkable, it tastes very good. Especially chopped up fried eggs to eat, very delicious and under the rice, there is no bitter taste of wild vegetables. At the same time, it can also be used to boil water, make tea to drink, etc., with rheumatism, detoxification effect, especially for some coughs, small colds are also very effective.
The third is plantain.
This should be a plant that countless people are very familiar with, some people may not have seen it, but they should also have heard of its name. When I was a child, I also dug up plantain with adults and picked the seeds of plantain to sell for money!
The scientific name of plantain is flat plantain, and it is a plant that loves to grow on the side of the road. It has a strong vitality, even if it is often trampled by people, and even if a vehicle is often pressed over it, it can still grow tenaciously.
This plant looks a bit like the toad grass introduced earlier, except that its leaves are flat. Therefore, in the folk also called it toad leaf, toad grass and so on.
Speaking of the value of plantain, it is estimated that many people have drunk water soaked in it when they were young. Yes, it can be used to soak water to drink, in the past, the countryside also used it to treat children wetting, some children are easy to wet at night, you can use it to boil water for children to drink.
In fact, plantain is not only able to take out tea or boil water to drink, its young stems and leaves are still a kind of best wild vegetables, in the past it was even a kind of "life-saving grass", many rural old people, should have dug plantain to fill their hunger.
Plantain is also eaten in a variety of ways, and its seedlings are very delicious. When boiled in boiling water, it can be used for cold mixing, dipping sauce, stir-frying, filling, soup or steaming noodles. The author likes to use it to scramble eggs, and it is also very cooked.
Plantain is now also specially planted in some places, where young stems and leaves can be dug up in the spring to sell as wild vegetables, and in the autumn its seeds can be picked as medicinal herbs. The stems and leaves of the elders, dried, can also be used as herbs, and many pharmacies will buy them.
Like the Guangdong region, plantain is often used to make herbal tea to drink. Sun-dried plantains can generally sell for 5 to 20 yuan a catty, and they are also hot all year round.
The three plants introduced above are very common in the countryside, and because of their "simple" appearance, there is no stunning appearance, which is often overlooked. However, in the past, it has helped many people, both as wild vegetables to eat, and has a very high medicinal value, I hope that the next time you encounter, do not treat them as weeds to remove.